dull
Adjective
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also:
- unanimated - not animated or enlivened; dull
- colorless, colourless - lacking in variety and interest
- spiritless - lacking ardor or vigor or energy
tells us about: dullness - the quality of lacking interestingnesssimilar to:- arid, desiccate, desiccated - lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
- bovine - dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
- drab, dreary - lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- heavy, leaden - lacking lightness or liveliness
- humdrum, monotonous - tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
- lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless - lacking brilliance or vitality
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also: unpolished - not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishingtells us about: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness - the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting lightsimilar to:
- flat, mat, matt, matte, matted - not reflecting light; not glossy
- lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless - lacking luster or shine
- soft, subdued - not brilliant or glaring
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similar to: soft - (of sound) relatively low in volume
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similar to: uninteresting - arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement
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similar to: unsaturated - (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
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similar to: deadened - made or become less intense
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similar to: stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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referred to in: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspectssimilar to: inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused
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similar to:
- blunt - used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- blunted, dulled - made dull or blunt
- edgeless - lacking a cutting edge
- unsharpened - not sharpened
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similar to: insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
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similar to: nonresonant, unreverberant - not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberatesame as: thudding
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similar to: cloudy - full of or covered with cloudssame as: leaden
Verb
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is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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is a type of: soften - make (images or sounds) soft or softer
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is a type of: desensitise, desensitize - cause not to be sensitive
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same as: blunt
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is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesame as: pall
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is a type of: weaken - become weakersubtypes: cloud - make milky or dull
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